Environmental and transportation issues in urban environments

On September 21 and September 22, the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy will host a two-day conference on environmental and transportation issues in urban environments. Academics from China and abroad will present papers on air travel, electric vehicles, the automobile market, and transportation policies. Clifford Winston, the Searle Freedom Trust Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies program will moderate the discussion. Distinguished economists from applied microeconomics will attend the conference and comment on papers presented.